Environmental Statistics and Optimal Regulation

Environmental Statistics and Optimal Regulation

Any organism is embedded in an environment that changes over time. The timescale for and statistics of environmental change, the precision with which the organism can detect its environment, and the costs and benefits of particular protein expression levels all will affect the suitability of different strategies--such as constitutive expression or graded response--for regulating protein levels ...

Correction: Environmental Statistics and Optimal Regulation

Any organism is embedded in an environment that changes over time. The timescale for and statistics of environmental change, the precision with which the organism can detect its environment, and the costs and benefits of particular protein expression levels all will affect the suitability of different strategies–such as constitutive expression or graded response–for regulating protein levels in...

Optimal Profits under Environmental Regulation

In this paper we analyze the economic effects of implementing EPA’s newly proposed regulations for carbon dioxide (CO2) on existing U.S. coal-fired power plants using nonparametric methods on a sample of 144 electricity generating units. Moreover, we develop an approach for evaluating the economic gains from averaging emission intensities among the utilities’ generating units, compared to imple...

Optimal governmental decentralization for environmental regulation

Statistical Ecology and Environmental Statistics

Ecology is undergoing some major changes in response to changing times of societal concerns coupled with remote sensing information and computer technology. Both theoretical and applied ecology are using more of statistical thought processes and procedures with advancing software and hardware to satisfy public policy and research, variously incorporating sample survey data, intensive site-speci...